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Friday, 20 November 2015

The Internet has become an
integral part of our lives. Humans have replaced most sorts of interaction and
actions such as reading books and others with the internet and devices on which
they can use the internet. The internet has become such a vital part of our
daily lives that it usually does not only limit itself to benefitting us and
may also cause us serious harm, unneeded stress and other irritation. Usually
when we hear people either shouting about something or complaining about
something, we can safely assume that there is something wrong with the
internet.

Internet problems may
include having no internet, weak service or a disconnected service. We get
affected by the unavailability or hampering of internet speeds as an
unavailability of water or air. The statistics have indicated that users of the
internet will be rising monumentally by the end of the current year. It is
estimated that with the New Year, around half of the total population on earth
will be on the internet. The ITCU or Internet Telecommunication Union is an
affiliate of the UN. The ITCU expects that around 3.2 billion people are using
the internet around the world where as 2 billion people come from the
developing parts of the world.

Additionally by the end of
the year 2015, internet subscriptions via cellular devices will also rise to
around 7 billion. It should also be noted that the number of these particular
subscriptions back in the year 2000 was only a mere 400, that too around the
world. Within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Communications and Information
Technology Commission has stated that the number of Internet users has already
reached 21 million and still there is increasing demand for more broadband
services. Only two years ago the internet users in the Kingdom were only 16.5
million.

The surge in internet
connections can be attributed to users wanting faster speeds and better network
strengths for their home / office use as well as for use in personal hand held
devices such as cellular phones. It is without doubt that I say to you that the
Internet has allowed us to access numerous services by the click of a button
which usually ends up saving some money and most importantly time and effort.
However like all other things that we are attracted to, we have become so
dependent on the Internet that we do not acknowledge its disadvantages.

Before the internet, there
was no such thing as hacking of personal information which could be extremely
harmful in some cases. Furthermore the Internet has allowed everybody fast and
instant access to pornographic material which was definitely harder or
impossible to acquire in Muslim countries prior to the arrival of the Internet.
Society as a whole is obsessed with the phenomenon that we call the internet,
and it’s getting worse with each generation. Just imagine if one day the
internet disappears, most of the world would come to a standstill leaving us
literally back in the stone ages.